HARRISBURG — Rob McCord sat serenely and silently, his fingertips resting on his thighs and his eyes fixed not on the reporters around him but on a spot someplace on the hallway wall. "Mr. McCord, do you care to comment?" "No," he whispered with a shake of his head. Stillness, softness, calm. These were the attributes McCord, the 55-year-old former state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor, displayed outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III in Harrisburg. Thirty minutes later, McCord stepped into Jones' courtroom and a tougher, rougher side of McCord emerged, spelled out in a guilty plea to charges of trying to extort...

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